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Manoranjan Prasad Sinha (10 October 1900 – November 1971) was a
Bhojpuri Bhojpuri may refer to: * Bhojpuri language, an Indo-Aryan language of India and Nepal * Bhojpuri grammar, grammatical rules of the language * Bhojpuri nouns, nouns of the language * Bhojpuri people, people who speak the language * Bhojpuri region ...
poet, author and professor and Principal of Rajendra College, Chapra. He is famous for his Bhojpuri poem ''Firangia'', which he wrote in 1921 during
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. He was also elected as the president of ''18th Bihar Hindi Sammelan'' at
Motihari Motihari is a city and headquarters of East Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is located 80 kilometres west of Muzaffarpur and 152 kilometres northwest of the state capital Patna. In early days the land of Motihari was ruled b ...
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Life

He was born on 10 October 1900 in
Shahabad district Shahabad district or Arrah district, headquartered at Arrah (now part of Bhojpur) was a Bhojpuri speaking district in western Bihar, India, making the western border of Bihar with Uttar Pradesh. In 1972, the district was split into two distri ...
, his father Rajeshwar Prasad was a
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. His family later shifted to
Dumraon Dumraon is a town, near Buxar city and nagar parishad corresponding community development block in Buxar district in the Indian state of Bihar. Historically, it was the capital of the Dumraon Raj. Geography Dumraon is located at at an average ...
town of the district (presently
Buxar Buxar is a nagar parishad city in the state of Bihar, India, sharing border with Balia and Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the eponymous Buxar district, as well as the headquarters of the community development ...
) After completing his higher studies he became Reader at
Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU), formerly Benares Hindu University, is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, ...
. Later he became the Principal of Rajendra College at
Chhapra Chhapra (ISO 15919, ISO: ''Chaparā'') is a city and headquarters of the Saran District in the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated near the junction of the Ghaghara River and the Ganges River. Chhapra grew in importance as a river-based mar ...
. After retiring from here he became the
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of Hindi Vidyapeeth in
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. He spent his last years of life at an Ashram in
Vrindavan Vrindavan (; ), also spelt Vrindaban and Brindaban, is a historical city in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located in the Braj, Braj Bhoomi region and holds religious importance for Hindus who believe that Krishna, one of ...
. In the month of November in 1971 he died in
Ranchi Ranchi (; ) is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern ...
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Works


Bhojpuri

* Firangia * Chausa Ke Maidan Me{{Cite book, last=Kumar, first=Arun, title=Grierson : Bhasha Aur Sahitya Chintan, publisher=Vani Prakashan, year=2018, isbn=978-9387889330, location=, pages= *Kitaban Me Ego Duniya Basal Ba *Kaga Bhore Bhore Bole Hamra Angana


Hindi

* Uttarakhand Ke Path Par


References

1900 births 1971 deaths 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian educators